...more things on heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in our phiosophies, and all that.

BURKE

PRONUNCIATION:(buhrk)

MEANING:verb tr.:1. To murder by suffocation.2. To silence or suppress.3. To avoid or bypass.

ETYMOLOGY:After William Burke (1792-1829), who killed people to sell their bodies for dissection. His preferred method was smothering so as to leave the body unmarked and suitable for dissection. He was captured, hanged, and on the judge's orders, his body was publicly dissected. Earliest documented use: 1829.

Typhoid Mary PRONUNCIATION:(TY-foid MAIR-ee) MEANING:noun: A person from whom a disease or something undesirable spreads. ETYMOLOGY:After Mary Mallon (1869-1938), a cook in New York, who was a healthy carrier (contagious but showing no symptoms) of typhoid. She died of pneumonia. Read/watch more about her on PBS Nova. Earliest documented use: 1909._________________________________________minus H

TYPOID MARY - a secretary in New York who Had an id-seated mental disorder that proHibited Her from typing the letter H.

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